Several useful web dev topics, "Better Explained"

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.

• How To Optimize Your Site With GZIP Compression
• How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching
• How To Debug Web Applications With Firefox
• Using JSON to Exchange Data
• How To Make a Bookmarklet For Your Web Application
• The Quick Guide to GUIDs

A few focus on Javascript and/or site building:

• Speed Up Your Javascript Load Time
• Speed Up Your Javascript, Part 2: Downloadable Examples!
• A Simple, Comprehensive Overview of Javascript

Still others aren't specific to web development, but can be valuable to all kinds of developers, and it was one of these that led me to the site in the first place:

• A Visual Guide to Version Control
• Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated)
• Keeping your data backed up

The site is Better Explained, whose tag line is "Explanations for everyone". The author does a pretty good job of that. Some of the topics are a little too one-sided (the discussion of HTTP compression does only show setting it up in Apache, not IIS), and of course there's no mention of CF anywhere. :-) But we can't expect that from everyone. There are lots of positive comments and linkbacks on on many of the entries, so he'd done a good job in the eyes of most.

Indeed, if you may be hearing the siren call of Ruby on Rails, they have an article on that: Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew. There's also an intro to MVC, but again it's from a Rails perspective: Intermediate Rails: Understanding Models, Views and Controllers.

If there's something you'd like to see the author address on the site, he has a post for that, too: What do you want Better Explained?.

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